Ah! Transactional Analysis. Yes, I grew up in an environment
   where that was everywhere I went, although I didn't know its
   name. I absorbed a lot of it as true and it has become part of
   my... lingo I suppose, in a shortened fashion. Related, on the
   back of the toilet growing up was a book, "Scripts People Play".
   Elementary school kid, bored during a long sit, I read it. Over
   and over, because it just sat there. Easy stuff. We're all but
   players on a stage, reciting our parts and we forgot it was all
   but a play. Shakespeare revisited, although I learned the pop
   psych before I learned the Shakespeare it was based on. The I'm
   ok/not ok, we mocked openly in school. There were posters
   EVERYWHERE about it. It was THE THING that was going to cure all
   the ills of society. Yet, I absorbed some of it. Oddly enough,
   it softened relations with many people and turned out to be a
   practical way to relate to people socially who were causing
   problems. Do I believe it on a deep down level? Not really. But
   it's practical. There's the American again.